Lviv has begun planting tulip bulbs donated to the Lviv community by Dutch farmers. In spring, these flowers are to adorn around 150 locations across the city and in other settlements of the community, the Department of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Lviv City Council has reported.
According to the department, the donated bulbs have already been allocated among various public spaces. 37,000 bulbs are being planted in the city’s parks, with the remainder going along streets, in small parks and squares, and on land around social centres, museums, hospitals and educational institutions. The first work this week was carried out, in particular, on several flowerbeds in Ivan Franko Park and on the Valy.
“We have already distributed the bulbs gifted from the Netherlands. We will plant 37,000 in the city’s parks, with the rest going along streets, in squares, near social centres, museums, hospitals and educational institutions. This week tulips were planted in several flowerbeds in Ivan Franko Park and on the Valy. There will be new varieties, but we will also keep those that delighted us last spring with their beauty and colours,” said Oksana Lutsko
Staff of the municipal enterprise LKP “Zelenyi Lviv” have joined the planting work. Next week, tulips are planned to be planted at the Memorial to the Heavenly Hundred Heroes, as well as in a number of city parks: Zamartynivskyi, Pid Holoskom, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi Park in Briukhovychi, and in the Piskovi Ozera, Horikhovyi Hai, Levandivskyi and Lychakivskyi parks, in the Pohulianka Park, on Vysokyi Zamok (High Castle Hill) and in other green areas.
The city also plans to create new floral locations. Tulip displays will appear in front of the Puppet Theatre and in the small park on Horodotska Street near the circus. New varieties will also be added to the flowerbed on Rynok Square.
As in previous years, different varieties of tulips will be planted on the large flowerbed in front of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Sykhiv, as well as on the new flowerbed in front of the Dovzhenko Centre. Some of the flowers are to be planted on roundabouts: near the Victoria Gardens shopping centre, on Petliury Street, at the junction of Naukova and Symonenka streets, on Knyahyni Olhy Street and Truskavetska Street, as well as at the junction of Volodymyra Velykoho and Kulparkivska streets and on other roundabouts.
In spring, tulips will decorate not only Lviv, but also other settlements in the Lviv community. The Department of Ecology and Natural Resources has expressed its gratitude to the Dutch farmers for providing the bulbs, and to the logistics company Meest Group for helping to deliver them to Lviv.
As a reminder, a record consignment of 200,000 tulip bulbs from the Netherlands was earlier delivered to Lviv, and these are now gradually being planted in the city’s flowerbeds and parks.